Improved feame pob mosquito-nets



@einenl tatto atrnt @Hirn MARY L. 'PREA l) WELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 67,612, dated August 6, 1867.

IMPROVED FRAME FOR MOSQUITO-NETS.

TO ALL WIIOM IT MAY CONGERN:

De it known that I, MARY L. TREADWELL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Frame for Mosquito-Nets, and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification ofthe same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of lmy said improvements, hy which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

This invention has for its object the constructing of a frame for mosquito-nets in such a manner that it may he readily applied to and detached from a bcdstead, chair, lounge, or other article, and be also capable of being taken apart or unjointed, so that it may be placed in an ordinary travelling-trunk Without monopolizing much room therein, and carried without any inconvenience by families or individual travellers in making summer tours. In the accompanying sheet of drawings Figure 1 is a perspective View of my invention applied to a bedstcad.

Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, detached views of parts pertaining to the same.

Similarletters of reference indicate like parts.

A represents a bedstead, which may be constructed in any of the known forms, the invention in this instance being represented as applied to a bedstead and constructed as follows: B B are two rods or wires, the lower ends of which are flattened and perforated so that they may he secured to the inner side of the headboard of the hedstead by screws a, the rods or wires passing Ithrough eyes b in the upper part of the headboard, the eyes and screws firmly retaining the rods in position, one at each end of the headboard, as shown clearly in tig. 1. To the upper ends of the rods B B there are secured two sockets c c', the sockets e being at the front and the sockets c at the rear sides of the rods, and in the rear sockets there are fitted vertical rods C C, the upper ends of which have each a socket, d, attached. In the front sockets c the lower ends of curved rods D D are fitted, said rods projecting forward land upward to a level with the tops of the rods C C. E E are horizontal rods, which rest upon the tops ofthe rods C C D D. The ends ot' the rods E are flattened, the rear flattened ends having circular holes, d', made in them, and thefront ends having circular holes with a slot projecting from the front and rear sides, as shown clearly at e in tig'. 3. F F F Fl represent two pairs of parallel rods, which have guides,f, attached to admit of said rods being extended or contracted, lengthened or shortened, at pleasure, the guides at the same time securing Vthe ro'ds of each pair in contact. The outer ends 0f the rods of the pair F are bent or curved downward to form hooks g g, which are flattened at their ends in a. direction longitudinally with the rods, (see g. 5.) The outer ends of the rods of the other pair, F', are also bent downward to form hooks It 7i., (see iig. 4,) but these hooks are not flattened; they are round, like the rods. The hooks 7L t pass through the holes d in the rear ends of the rods E E, and into the sockets UZ at the upper ends ofthe rods C C, while the attened hooks gg pass through the holes e in the front ends of the rods E, the slots at thesides of the holes e rendering it necessary for the rods E and curved rods D to be adjusted or placed in line with the rods ot' the pairF for the hooks g to pass through the holes and slots made in them similar to e. After the hooks g are passed through the outer ends of the rods E D they are turned to a' position at right angles with the rods of the pair F, which causes the flattened hooks g and slotted holes e forming a lock to prevent the casualdetaehment ot' the parts, and the hooks t of the rear rods F passing through the holes in the rear ends of the rods E and the lower ends of the curved rods D inserted in the sockets c of the rods C. The extension-rods F F', it will be seen, are simply to render the device capable of being adjusted to bedsteads of dierent widths. The netting G is thrown overthe frame and top of thebedstead, and extends down to the door, as indicated in red in iig. 1. The several rods composing this invention may all be disconnected and be placed in an ordinary-sized trai'ellingtrunk. The rods may be quite light, as they have no appreciable amount of weight to bear. I would remark that the invention may beapplied to lounges, chairs, etc., as well as to bedsteeds.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The detachable frame for, mosquito-nets, constructed as described, consisting of the supporting-rods B B, sockets c c', vertical rods C, having sockets d, curved rods D, and horizontal rods B, with perforated and slotted ends upon the top of the rods C D, parallel. rods F F, having guidesfand hooks z, all arranged as described for the purpose specified.

MARY L. TREADWELL.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MeNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

